Babies & Children

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What are the outcome if a tongue / lip it is not treated?

About 5% of children are born with some degree of frenulum restriction, also known as tongue-tie or lip-tie.

This means that their tongue and/or lips are attached to the mouth with excessive webbing causes restrictions of movement. This tight tissue impedes the movement of the tongue or lips to various degrees. Tongue-tie can interfere with a baby's ability to suckle efficiently at the breast or bottle and cause the incorrect way of swallowing.

This may lead to nipple pain and trauma, poor breast milk intake and a decrease in milk supply over time. In case of bottle feeding, it caused incorrect function habit and increase intake of air. That can lead to exhausted infant during feeds and also affect the formation of jaw bones.

During infancy, there are infant concerns when breastfeeding and mother's milk is not available and also the long-term effect such as:

Reduced immunity to disease if mother's milk is not used ( pumping helps reduce this concern)